before obama took office. the construction industry i should say from previous two years, that the bush administration, the jobs basically stopped. >> and we saw enjourgeicouragin numbers too. >> the economy is horrible, but it's a little better than it was a couple weeks ago, but it's still significant. >> let me put it this way, in construction that is my field, we have not been so hurt. washington dc cannot say it's being hurt by the economy. it's flourishing. we have 60 let's say cranes all over town. >> we have the federal government as our big industry, so we're a more receptive group. >> everybody comes here to work. >> let me jump in quickly, i'm not a democrat, but i'm going to play one on tv real quickly. it's true that the president has been in office and if you're undecided at this point, you may well say let's bring in a relieve pitcher, but machinery has been running for president for the last seven years. and people know who he is, and if they haven't decided that he's the one to turn things aro